Seven Franklin High School students are being questioned for their involvement in selling and using Adderall inside the High School.

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Police and administrators were tipped off that pill dealing was going on after a girl got sick last Friday.

"When you take someone else’s medication, that is not prescribed to you, it may mix with something you've already taken or that you are prescribed and can put your life in danger," Franklin Police Chief Russ Whitman said.

Drug-sniffing dogs went through the school Wednesday and found no drugs.

Safety is one of the reasons administrators are taking this seriously.

Three students could face expulsion. They could all be criminally charged.

Students said they've heard some students talk about popping the pills.

"Just to get high, feel good, just to get through school easier," one student said.

But many said it’s not often you hear students using it in school.

"No it's not going around. You're not hearing about it in class like dude, I smoked a bunch of this. You're not hearing about a bunch of Adderall being popped," student James Haines said.

Administrators agree, but they don't believe this is the new drug of choice for teens.

"The school is only a microcosm of the entire community so whatever is out in the community is also going to be in the schools," Superintendent Mike Sander said.

Sander said it's important that parents with children who are prescribed the drugs take an active role in how the drug is kept and how it is taken.

At school, he encourages students to report drug abuse even if it’s anonymously.

"Silence is acceptance. If you know this is going on in the school and you don't do anything about it, you accept this is OK and it's not," Sander said.